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Ditto. And my actual breaking point, the moment where I turned off the episode halfway through, was when I realized that, after all that endless drama, all the apparent character development and struggle and triumph, Nathan-and-Audrey-2.0 is even worse than the first round. Nathan is still insufferable, but now Audrey acts exactly the same as he does. I can pinpoint the exact scene where I quit the show: when Audrey wanted to ditch everyone to tag along with Nathan and watch over him. The best part here is that I would watch a show with leads that give zero fucks about anything but each other and take the worst decisions accordingly, but this is not what Haven was. I actually thought about why I can't just roll with this change, and decided that I don't care about the characters enough to be interested if love is the main story arc. This is generally true for me though, and the reason why I also found Fringe so hard to finish. One of the few things less interesting to me than these love stories is parental love. Fringe did both. It was a nightmare. I don't even remember how the show ended, it was too hard to keep paying attention. I first wanted to say that there are shows that can go for more, but then I couldn't think of any. Person of Interest is entering season 5 and it's still really strong, but it is not actually an exception because it started out as a procedural and introduced relevant plot pieces very slowly at first; the actual story wouldn't have covered much more than 3 seasons. BtVS - it's an UO, but I liked season 6. Breaking Bad? The Sopranos?

I agree that people are excited about any new movie in a fandom-inspiring franchise. Star Wars is the front runner for Most Crazed, but there was also a lot of (imo totally undeserving) excitement over the new Godzilla, Jurassic Park, Terminator... etc. Old cast or not, Star Wars will be a spectacle, and that's enough for a very large number of people who aren't even Star Wars fans. I'll watch it, unless the reviews are bad, because I'm interested in the next one; Rian Johnson is an interesting director.

That's not how I saw it. For Skye and Raina, when the cocoon started falling, it was obvious it was relatively thin, shell-like. Skye looked at Trip and chunks of his face crumbled, like a statue falling to pieces. Video

I think "past their prime" affects serialized shows in a different way than comedies and procedurals. Someone can say it about a comedy or a procedural when s/he is bored of them or thinks they are starting to feel repetitive/recycled. Besides, when episodes have the same event-of-the-week structure, it's likely that some are better than others during the entire run. In serialized shows "past their prime", the story line drags on or becomes increasingly improbable or convoluted to keep going; once the story deteriorates, and possibly also the characters, there it is: the idea that the show should wrap up already. It's not that easy for a serialized show to come up with 22 episodes worth of story just because it was renewed for another season(s). Lost is one of the popular examples. My UO is that I also thought this about Fringe and Haven and only started their last season because it was the last. (And I still quit Haven last week because I just can't with it anymore, not even for just 10 more episodes.)

I did the same with season 3's 4C, an episode of almost nothing but Reese manpain-ing, taking his toys and leaving in a tantrum only to, obviously, change his mind. Skip! (I then went back and watched it though. The long hiatus made everything more appealing.) I don't fault Caviezel for Reese being boring - he has good comedic timing; imagine Reese without that. My main issue in finding Reese totally uninteresting is that I can tune in to most shows or movies, no matter from what decade, and see a Reese-type. That, and the typical procedural format, was why I not just dropped the show after 2 episodes despite really liking Michael Emerson in Lost, but why it also completely disappeared from my radar: I never clicked on any articles on it, no matter how positive the title. That's why it took so long to find out about the changes that happened in season 3 and start watching and become a fan in a way I haven't been since... I can't even remember. PoI is the first time I listened to a Comic Con panel, for example, and live at that. I suppose I'm a bit of an atypical viewer in that I already knew about Carter's death before I even saw the character. I really liked her, and I regret her death, but I knew it was coming. And, as it happens, it came as a package with what made the show watchable for me. She was great, and Fusco is pretty good too, but I wouldn't have watched the show for them.

Abandoned. Like most promising story arcs. It's like the writers did lists of plot ideas and then forgot if they were ordered best to worst or worst to best. Maybe it's nostalgia or the glow of unrealized potential, but all the new content seems worse to me - except Trubel, not that she was around much or will be from now.

I've just rewatched season 2, and the Cavalry backstory got me thinking. We know the selection process took a long time, and there were people who took rejection badly (no surprise here). If Lash really is killing only the pre-outbreak Inhumans, maybe he is someone who became an Inhuman now after he was denied the mist earlier, and is finally able to kill those who were chosen. Revenge/resentment. Skye would then not be a target because, despite the timeline, she is similar to the new Inhumans: she was clueless when she was exposed to the terrigen mist, and it happened independently as she wasn't part of the Inhuman society in any way until she became one. I'd take this over yet another hidden hostile faction, organization, or even small group, especially while there are active Hydra and ATCU story lines. The Rogue Gallery heap is tall enough at the moment.

Whoever he is, he looked at an incapacitated Sky and just moved on, so it would make sense that he is someone who knows who she is, and therefore we've seen or will see soon. Could he be one of Rosalind's people, logistically? They get on site pretty quickly, so he'd have to slip away from the team and back on short notice. It would be possible if it's all sanctioned by higher ups, even Rosalind herself. However, that would be so much of a retread after Hydra and the "real SHIELD", and it wouldn't lead anywhere new, and Coulson said as much when he told Skye about their cooperation with Rosalind.

Read with a barf bag handy or skip page 4 (*). http://www.screenspy.com/articles/tv/grimm-5-things-to-know-about-the-season-5-premiere/ "the funeral scene is taken deliberately out of context. What you’re looking at is the fevered dream/hallucination of Nick Burkhardt, who, while these events are happening, is lying on the floor of his living room, drugged and incapacitated." - The promo monkeys at it again... (*) The horrendous page 4... get ready... starts with this Adalind line: "Don’t hate me anymore, Nick. For our son’s sake, we can’t be like we were." and goes downhill from there. I have no words. I have no hope left for this show. I don't even care if this is a manipulation attempt and revealed as such mid-season because (1) I don't want to watch it until then, and (2) the writers are doing the same shit as before.

This was the last episode for me. I'm glad for the pool scene. It was the best the show has done so far in terms of eye candy, and it also told me quite clearly that I should only keep watching if pure fan service is enough. Pre-internet, it might have been. These days I can ogle plenty of pretty without wasting 40 minutes on drivel. Maybe someone will even upload selected scenes of Quantico eye candy on youtube.

Over the years, I've seen more Mary Sue characters than I can count - male too - but TV shows are not the best environment for them (i.e. they are rare and not so over-the-top, which is why, imo, Alex grated despite not being an egregious example*); genre books and fan fiction is where they thrive. People have different degrees on tolerance for sue-ish traits, but they are like pornography: you know them when you see them... after you've seen a few really shameless Sues, male and/or female. * Quantico as a whole is a heap of stupidity and unbelievable writing. Had I known it would be this bad, Alex would have stood out less: while she is the lead character, she is hardly the centerpiece of the clusterfuck of fails; she is a symptom, not the cause, of the show being awful. The hate for Sue characters comes partly from the fact that the story and writing accommodate their constant amazingness, no matter how implausible they have to get or how much the other characters suffer for it. But on Quantico the story and writing proved laughable in ways that are not related to Alex.

This. (I was ok with Blood Simple too, but that one was their first and more of a noir than a "Coen movie".) And yeah, I think I want to see Scarlett Johansson in this role. Or any role. I might even check out The Jungle Book because her as Kaa sounds good (no pun intended :D ) All I see is "Directed by the guy who did 17 Again, Charlie St. Cloud, and some TV show episodes. Written by the same guy, who wrote How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days." and I can't muster any interest whatsoever. I'll wait for reviews.

^ I agree. I watched Top Gun as a teenager, IIRC, and thought it was epic (bros! planes! action!), definitely candy, but never thought of it as eye candy for women i.e. "hot guys". (Gay men weren't a part of any equation for me at that age; I didn't even notice any homoerotic subtext. In Top Gun. Oh, youth... lol.) That reminds me, I saw it mentioned in vulgar auteurism discussions (like here).

Thankfully! "Final Girl" was just awful on all levels. This one is good, though inexplicably PG-13, which would normally be fine, but not so much a meta horror of decidedly not PG-13 80s slashers. Oh, what could have been... Still, it was funny, and visually fun (there is another layer of a 50s movie, btw, the in-movie in-movie flashback when the 80s killer was a bullied teenager... and this one is black-and-white, obvs.) and the ending was clever. I like the genre, and I like slashers too, so I was excited about this one and it didn't disappoint.

^ She sure does. Amy sounds totally different from Root too though (and often in a "wait, srsly?" way in that her voice as Root is less affected and nasal and imo more of a "normal speaking voice"). The working titles for the first nine episodes of s5 were revealed by the script supervisor: http://isagrimorie.tumblr.com/post/131085074906/titles-for-the-first-nine-episodes - the link is to a tumblr post with some interesting comments.

UO: A season with no watchable new shows is not a bad thing at all. There are older shows to (re)watch and plenty of movies. Except for the weirdness of not having a weekly schedule of episodes, I don't actually notice the absence of new shows to watch.

I have found no good new shows this season. It's actually quite of an event in itself. Still waiting for Jessica Jones, Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Into the Badlands, and Flesh and Bone, but they are all in November.

ITA. It's the title of a 1988 movie too, also unrelated.

ME flipping Root's hair! ME confirmed it's the last season on CBS (no surprise there, but nice to see it confirmed) and JC's speech sounded like a goodbye too. Everything they said sounded great tbh, especially Shaw getting a standalone episode and Fusco finally getting his "wtf is going on" story arc.

I watched it. Sarah Shahi is amazing. I am still processing everything else. Also, a trailer was released. It's not really a trailer though; it's one scene, but it's very, very funny. Amy Acker and Michael Emerson are great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6QLO_PnW0g

If Haven never existed in the outside world, what about all the trading, the food and everything sold in shops, everyone's bank accounts that worked just fine for years? It's not like this would function strictly locally or with just a few people crossing. What about making phone calls to and from Haven? There's playing loose with dimensions and "Haven not existing", and... there's retconning. Maybe I'm just cynical, but I'm seeing this idea as a case of the latter.

He could have just said he hadn't seen who shot him. That way nothing would have changed for Alex - she'd still be the suspect - and it would have been way less *ahem* awkward to recant later. Besides, since the terrorist is an insider, s/he will find out that he lied, so how is that not tipping him/her off? The whole thing is so stupid that he'd better be on it, i.e. wanting Alex to be the suspect, because that would actually make sense of what happened. Bonus: Alex is too dumb... I mean "blinded by lurrrve" to realize it. I will keep hoping for this reveal until the very last moment.

Ah ha ha, this is the best ever srsly. Oh, show, stay classy! 50 photos from 1x04 and in this episode we get to see Alex doubt herself (lol) and wonder if she should leave Quantico. In a show with flash forwards, we are treated to Alex considering a decision we already know she didn't take. Truly scintillating stuff. Anyone betting on the chances of Alex actually failing?

I tend to "soft-drop" shows: I stop watching the episodes as they air and just check the forum and/or sites to see where things are going. It's easier than deciding to outright call it quits, especially mid-season. I only go to threads for these shows I might pick up again. This is partially because, when I quit a show, I soon forget about it. While the opinions on TVD back on TWOP were mixed, the ranting was so heated (and the show got so bad) that I stopped reading even though my opinions were nowhere near singular. Then again, my interest in the show itself had dwindled and I soon quit watching. I also stopped going to the Fringe threads in the later seasons because the Walter and Peter love had completely taken over. It wasn't that that I would have posted dissenting opinions, it was more than that: it felt that we were watching different shows and there was no point in talking. Also, and I've only realized this pretty recently, there are shows I watch but just don't read their threads and pretty much never have. I've seen the love for Arrow, but I watched the first 1 or 2 episodes, found it/them dreadful and could never go back. Didn't try The Flash at all.

I can't watch sitcoms, usually not even one entire episode. Even if I find them funny, they don't hold my interest. In recent years, the only one I managed to watch more of was The B* in Apartment 23.